News > Mark Millar is Excited About "Wanted" Film Adaptation

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Comic scribe Mark Millar was understandably vague about the footage he saw for the film adaptation of Wanted, his graphic novel about a regular guy becoming a supervillain and subsequently making the world his bitch. Evidently, it'll star Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy, and will be directed by, according to Millar, "An action director THIS GOOD." Whatever that means.

As great as certain parts of the Wanted graphic novel were, one has to look at this with some serious skepticism: the comic is sadistic, mean-spirited, and arrogant, and the ending basically insults you for buying the comic in the first place. That may work really well within comics, but if the movie is even remotely similar to the source material (in which case James McAvoy would have to rape and kill almost every woman he meets), we'll hear some serious complaints from both the right and left sides of the political spectrum. 

Still, though, it's great that the movie won't completely follow the source material and cast Eminem as the lead. Blecch.